As part of the global movement toward more open government, citizens have become increasingly concerned with obtaining access to accurate, comprehensive and timely information on the budgets of their countries. The International Budget Project developed the Open Budget Questionnaire, a...

The pop singer Bono recently accompanied Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to South Africa to determine whether aid to poor countries is practicable. Is there a change in U.S. aid policy in the offing? A couple of months earlier, President Bush, also with Bono at his side, raised the level of aid...